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Lot 378: Broadside, c.1800 - Gun Stocks-

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Lot  378: Broadside, c.1800 - Gun Stocks-
<b>War of 1812</b><hr><b>America Prepares for the War of 1812</b>

<b>180? Broadside, 'Black Walnut Gun Stocks,' Choice Extremely Fine.</b>
6.75' x 8,' nice and bright, with some very faint dampstaining noted in the lower right corner. Perhaps in preparation for the upcoming hostilities against the British, Tench Coxe, the Purveyor of Public Supplies, prepared this form to advertise the nationÕs need for gun stocks for American soldiers. It reads, in full: 'Black Walnut Gun Stocks, SUITABLE for the muskets of the United States, are purchased by this office. Proposals to supply will be received by mail, containing the prices, and the number of stocks which will be certainly delivered in one, two, or three months, for cash, after inspection at the arsenal of the United States, on Schuykill.' This is an unissued remainder and only the first weÕve ever seen.